Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1887-08-26

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disposition was sad, even desponleat aud
morbid. And yet few young mems lives
promise TO be SO pleasant a Charles Carris-
tons.
/ was rallying him one day on his future
rank and lis responsibilities.
You Will, OF course, he disgusting;
richfn | said
Carrston sighed. eyes, II ! live long
enough; but don't suppose | shall
why in the world shoullu't youl You
look pale AID thin, bat are in capital health
Twelve long miles we have walked to-day
YOU never turlcd har."
Ca.1rston made no reply. lie seemed r.,
deep thought.
"Your friends ought to look after you end
get YOU a wife ! said
81 have no friends, he snil 81 Nv "No
nearer relation than n cousin good DIAL Older
than am, who looks upoa mo a ono who
was born 10 rob him Of what should b. his
But by the law of rr.mo-eniture, so sa.
cred TO the upper ten thousand, he must
know you are entitled 90 it,"
YES; but for years all years was al
ways going 10 die. My lie was not IL on ht
worth six months purchas'. Al of a sud
den | got well. Ever sin q ton | have
seemed, even TO myself, eLaS OF inter-
loper"
ut must b. urv ~r- - have man
longing for ones death An the more rea-
son YOU should marry and pu. other lives
between him and the title "
81 fancy | shall never marry" said Car
riston, looking at me with his soft, dark
eyes. 'You see, boy who has waitel for
years expecting TO die doesn't grow up with
exactly the same feeling as other people.
don think | shall ever NEE. a woman
can care for enough 10 make my wife, 10;
expect my cousin viii be- Sir Ralph yet"
| tried 20 laugh him out Of his morbid
ideas. "Those who live will sae.n / sad.
Only promise to ask me 10 your wedding,
and better still, if you live in town. ap.
point me your family doctor. Ii may prove
the nucleus of that West End practice which
it is the dream of every doctor 20 establish
/ have already alluded TO TIE STRANGE
beauty Of arriston's dark eyes. rs soon
as companionship commenced between Us
those eyes became to me, from scientific
reasons, objects of curiosity on acc0un. Of
the mysterious expression which at times |
detected in them. Often AMI often thev
wore a lcols the like 20 which, I imagine, il
found only in the eyes Of a somnambulst-
look which one feels certain is lntently tx
upon something, yet upon something beyond
the range of ones own vision During tho,
first two or three days Of our newborn in
tmacy l found this ccceutricity Of Car
:iSton's positively startling. When now
and then | turned TO him and fYunl him
staring with all his might at nothing. my
eyes were compelled 10 follow the direction
in which his own were b'nt. Il was a. fist
impossible 10 divcst ono's self Of thu lcliel
that something should be there 10 justly
So fixed a gaze. However, a, the rapid
growth of our friendly intercourse soon
showed me that he was a boy of most ar
dent poetic emperament-perhaps even
more a poet than an artist laid at the
door OF the Muse these absent looks and re
curing flights into vacancy.
We were at the Fairy Glen one morning.
sketching, 10 the bast Of cur ability, tho
swirling stream, the gray rocks nn1 the
overhanging trees, the last just growing bril-
liant with autumnal tints. 50 beautiful was
everything around that for a long time |
worked. idled. CT dreamed in contented